Red
Dust on the Green Leaves
is the dramatic story of twins Koli and Sumo born in a rural Liberian
village soon to be impacted by the modern world. One remains in the
village while the other attends mission school.

“There
runs through the book not only the structure of daily life as lived,
with its cadence and intricacy, but also the emotional subtleties and
the ambivalences that surround the day-to-day actualities”, Professor
Jerome Bruner, Oxford University.

“I
am so pleased to hear that Red Dust will be reprinted! I have been using photocopies of the entire text
for the past several years. I find that using a novel, which
simulates the experience of being ‘thrown into’ an
unfamiliar culture allows students to really come to terms with
differences between the Kpelle worldview and their own. My students
come to care about what happens to the characters at the same time
that they develop sympathy for the process of culture change.” Mary
Moran, Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Colgate
University.